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Global Opportunities and Challenges for Rural and Mountain Tourism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 354

Global Opportunities and Challenges for Rural and Mountain Tourism

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-01-03
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

Mountainous and rural areas throughout the world have continually been attributed with several hinderances including poverty, faulty governance, and susceptibility to natural disasters. However, with the recent development of tourism, these provinces have seen a strong rise in visitation. Despite this increase in economic sustainability, planners are still presented with many challenges as they try to balance developmental and ecological considerations. Global Opportunities and Challenges for Rural and Mountain Tourism provides emerging research exploring the integration of mountain tourism development and innovative practices for managing contemporary issues and challenges of tourism in these regions including socio-economic impacts, role of stakeholders, and promotional strategies for sustainable tourism development. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as cultural heritage, marketing strategies, and value chain systems, this book is ideally designed for travel agents, tour directors, tour developers, hotel managers, hospitality and tourism professionals, industry practitioners, researchers, geographical scientists, planners, academicians, and students.

Strengthening SME Performance Through Social Media Adoption and Usage
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 307

Strengthening SME Performance Through Social Media Adoption and Usage

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  • Published: 2023-03-17
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are recognized as the backbone of today’s world economy. However, SMEs are well known for having limitations and acceptance barriers in adopting new technology even though the internet and communications channel’s revolution has changed the way people conduct business today. Further, the COVID-19 pandemic has disturbed the operations of SMEs and increased the burden on social media application globally. It is essential that SMEs utilize social media to strengthen their performance. Strengthening SME Performance Through Social Media Adoption and Usage explores experiences in different technological, managerial, organizational, and entrepreneurial environmental issues. It focuses on different conceptions of factors and consequences influencing social media usage and SME performance. Covering topics such as corporate social responsibility, marketing frameworks, and social media adoption, this premier reference source is a valuable resource for entrepreneurs, business leaders and managers, human resource managers, marketers, consultants, students and educators of higher education, librarians, researchers, and academicians.

Handbook of Research on Digital Citizenship and Management During Crises
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 440

Handbook of Research on Digital Citizenship and Management During Crises

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-11-12
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

Today, individuals and societies of the digital age are no longer constrained by conventional contexts, narratives, settings, and status; they are surrounded and guided by digital tools and applications leading to a digital revolution. That digital revolution changed the individual along with living styles and cultural and social relations among people. Moreover, these revolutionary changes and the increasing capabilities of smart devices have brought today's people a new kind of public sphere with questionable freedoms but also restraints in its digital dimensions. Now, it is possible to talk about the digital dimension and equivalence of all the concepts that are both individually and soci...

Digital Business and Optimizing Operating Strategies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 328

Digital Business and Optimizing Operating Strategies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-01-04
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

In the rapidly evolving digital era, businesses undergo profound transformations requiring strategic adaptation and optimization. Digital Business and Optimizing Operating Strategies delves into the intricate interplay between digital technology and business strategies, exploring various facets such as management, marketing, finance, human resources, and more within the digital market structure. This comprehensive book critically examines enterprises' skills, productivity, and adaptability in response to technological advancements and customer expectations. Covering a wide range of sub-topics, this book addresses the management of social media applications, the technological capabilities of ...

Academic Tourism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 196

Academic Tourism

This book presents the latest knowledge on the still under-researched field of academic tourism, which over the past decade has gained in importance at local and national economic levels as a result of increasing international mobility of students and academic staff in higher education. A wide range of themes are explored from various perspectives, with the focus on Europe. Particular attention is paid to academic tourism demand, expenditure, and economic impact; the relationships between academic tourism and local and regional development, sustainable development, and environmental sustainability; and the importance of academic tourism for the internationalization of higher education and international cooperation and development. Further topics to be considered include the significance of academic tourism for the dynamics of tourism destinations and insights from experimental tourism research. In addition to theoretical chapters and state of the art reviews, readers will find insightful empirical and case studies. The book will be of interest to academics, researchers, students, and practitioners, including policy makers.

Oculoplastic Surgery, An Issue of Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics of North America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 233

Oculoplastic Surgery, An Issue of Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics of North America

This issue of Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics, guest edited by Drs. John B. Holds and Guy Massry, is dedicated to Oculoplastic Surgery. This series is one of four selected each year by the series consulting editor, Dr. J. Reagan Thomas. Topics will include—but are not limited to—Brow lift: open approaches, Brow lift: endoscopic approach, Upper blepharoplasty, Blepharoptosis repair: external aponeurotic repair, Blepharoptosis repair: internal approach, Lower blepharoplasty: external approach, Canthoplasty techniques, Lower blepharoplasty: transconjunctival approach, Treatment of lower eyelid festoons, Dermal fillers as an alternative to lower blepharoplasty surgery, Misuse and complications of periocular dermal fillers, Autogenous fat transfer in revision periocular surgery, Surgical treatment of post-blepharoplasty lower eyelid retraction, and the prominent eye: what to watch-out for.

The Moon, Come to Earth
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 172

The Moon, Come to Earth

A dispatch from a foreign land, when crafted by an attentive and skilled writer, can be magical, transmitting pleasure, drama, and seductive strangeness. In The Moon, Come to Earth, Philip Graham offers an expanded edition of a popular series of dispatches originally published on McSweeney’s, an exuberant yet introspective account of a year’s sojourn in Lisbon with his wife and daughter. Casting his attentive gaze on scenes as broad as a citywide arts festival and as small as a single paving stone in a cobbled walk, Graham renders Lisbon from a perspective that varies between wide-eyed and knowing; though he’s unquestionably not a tourist, at the same time he knows he will never be a l...

Building Smart and Sustainable Businesses With Transformative Technologies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 324

Building Smart and Sustainable Businesses With Transformative Technologies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-12-01
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

The digital revolution has brought about a significant shift in the business landscape, making it crucial for organizations to adapt and leverage transformative technologies. However, many businesses struggle to effectively harness the potential of these technologies, hindering their success in the era of digital transformation. Moreover, the pressing need for sustainability adds another layer of complexity to this challenge, requiring businesses to develop innovative models that address both digital transformation and sustainability. Building Smart and Sustainable Businesses With Transformative Technologies by Hamed Nozari offers a comprehensive solution to this pressing problem. With exper...

Cases on Social Media and Entrepreneurship
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 343

Cases on Social Media and Entrepreneurship

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-03-11
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  • Publisher: IGI Global

In the 21st century, social media has emerged as a pivotal force shaping business strategies and entrepreneurship. The rapid evolution of social media platforms poses a pressing question: how can one effectively address this fast-paced transformation? Cases on Social Media and Entrepreneurship explores this and delves into media entrepreneurship, giving special attention to its role in developing women entrepreneurs. It skillfully tackles the challenge of gender disparities within the entrepreneurial landscape. Simultaneously, it also explores how to harness the power of artificial intelligence amid the integration challenges it presents, offering instrumental insights for entrepreneurs and ...

3rd International Conference on Lifelong Education and Leadership for ALL-ICLEL 2017
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1183